“We also need conservatives who are in touch with the culture. “I think, for a long time, conservatism has been really buttoned-up and boring and stuffy,” he says.
But Walker sees himself as a much-needed breath of fresh air.
Walker’s videos may come across as performance art, parody, or just the expected product of a life of privilege. “I laser my whole body,” Walker informs me with a grin. (It doesn’t hurt, either, that his father is a good friend of Trump’s.) In a vast sea of white and blonde, Walker cuts a rare figure: a gay Black man in Cartier and Gucci who also happens to be a two-time world-champion competitive cheerleader with a six-pack and perfectly plucked eyebrows. Among the internet’s underbelly of young conservatives, like and Walker has differentiated himself, becoming a household “Young Republican” among the Gen-Z demographic and even getting invited onto Fox and One America News. Walker is, in his own words, a “free-speech radicalist” and a Christian “conservative populist.” He has declared, among other things, that “illegals” don’t belong here and that white supremacy is a liberal fantasy created on college campuses. But when we speak, Walker admits he had reported an account for being critical of his own - perhaps a reason he had been suspended. Online, Walker has been touting the TikTok ban as yet another sign that “groupthink psychos” are eager to cancel him. He is in the process of moving apartments in West Hollywood, and when I ask to see something he had brought with him, he pulls out his student Bible without even leaving his chair. “Because I’m right about my political commentary, leftists, who are typically wrong, want to shut me down,” Walker says, Zooming with me from his parents’ place in Dallas a few weeks later. Caption: “GUESS WHO’S BACK #american #conservative.”
When his TikTok got reactivated a few days later, Walker uploaded a video of himself pulling into his driveway in a Mercedes G-Wagon, scored by Doja Cat. For the past eight months, he had been recording sassy, highly stylized screeds on familiar right-wing talking points, from immigration and election fraud to cancel culture and bathroom bills, which would then ricochet across the internet in the form of righteous backlash, supportive shares, and one angry dunk from Kathy Griffin. In fact, more than any other trait among their peers, Gen Zs and millennials admire the ability to balance work and life priorities, the survey found.One day in February, Christian Walker, a junior at UCLA and the son of Hall of Fame football player Herschel Walker, opened TikTok to find that his account with more than 400,000 followers had been suspended. Nearly half of Gen Zs - and the majority of millennials - say their job is still central to their sense of identity, second only to their family and friends, the survey found.īut there is a strong desire among these generations to achieve better work-life balance. In any case, the more I work, the more I notice that my self-confidence is extremely defined by it," a UK millennial male said according to a 2023 survey by consultancy firm Deloitte of more than 22,000 Gen Zers and millennials around the world. It was more important to me to accomplish my personal goals. "I always used to think, work is just work, and it isn't really so important.
That's because Gen Zers and millennials are continuing to rethink their identities in relation to their jobs, particularly in the midst of high inflation, higher mortgage rates, and economic uncertainty. No matter where you live in the world, the role of work in your daily life is changing. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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